CEO, Mailmodo (YC S21 & Sequoia Surge) | Helping businesses get better ROI from email marketing

I am building Mailmodo, a SaaS platform to help businesses get 3x higher conversion from emails using interactive app-like widgets inside emails. The platform lets you add lead form, surveys, appointment scheduling, quizzes and many such widgets inside the emails.

Before starting Mailmodo, I was heading marketing at Cleartax. I built and grew the whole marketing team there from scratch. Among other things, I grew its monthly organic traffic by 5x in 1 year, grew CleartaxGST from scratch to a well-known brand with 600,000+ signups, doubled annual income tax filers & grew its mutual fund business to a multi-crore AUM. And all of this with a small team, agile marketing processes and my data-driven problem-solving skills. If you want to witness the impact, just google anything related to GST, income tax or best mutual funds. 

After that, the bug of independent/remote working bit me. And I started helping early-staged tech companies with Search & Social Ads, SEO, Inbound marketing, CRO, automation, agile processes and hiring. 

I like to help people in whichever possible. However. I don't like to be sold on Linkedin. If you think I can help you anyhow, please reach out to me.

Anthropic published how their growth team now ships 10x more ad variations while cutting creation time from 2 hours to 15 minutes.

Half of all paid creatives get killed before 28 days. 55% of total ad spend goes to a small set of winners. Low hit rates are structural. 

The only way to find winners is to produce more variations faster.

Here is what most marketers miss. 
AI does not improve your best creative. 
It increases your chances of finding it by letting you test at a scale that was never possible before.

This applies to email too, where most teams still spend days on a single send.
We built Mailmodo AI around this principle. 

One prompt generates a full campaign so teams can test more in a week than most do in a month.

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We built 250+ AI agents for marketers. Today we're making them all free!

We spent the last year watching marketers juggle ChatGPT for copy, one tool for SEO, another for social, something else for email subject lines.

The problem was fragmentation. So we built AI Squad: 250+ AI tools organized by marketing task, all in one place.

Whether you need a blog outline, email subject line, ad copy, social caption, or SEO meta description, there's a tool ready for each one. 

Every tool is designed to work instantly. 

Being in the martech space ourselves at Mailmodo, we understand what it actually takes to plan, create, and launch campaigns. That context went into every single tool we built.

If you're a marketer who's tired of switching between 12 tabs to get one campaign out the door, this is for you.

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We surveyed 80+ SaaS teams to understand what actually drove email performance in 2025.

Here’s what stood out:

- Subject lines were ranked as the single biggest driver of results.

- Actionable CTAs performed better than urgency-led or FOMO-driven messaging.

- Conversational tone worked best for most audiences.

- And the biggest challenge marketers reported? Writing at scale.

Most teams are already using AI and personalizing a significant portion of their campaigns. The real difference lies in where they focus their effort.

Our State of Email 2026 report breaks down the full benchmarks, patterns, and insights from the survey.

It’s now live.

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Apple's next product might be an AI personal assistant that lives on your desk.

This is not a prediction; the market is already moving in this direction.

In January 2026, the M4 Mac Mini started flying off shelves.

People were buying it to run local AI agents like OpenClaw, an open-source tool that monitors email, books reservations, organizes calendars, and runs 24/7 on your own hardware.

One developer bought 12 Mac Minis in a single order. 

Apple has been building on-device AI models designed to run natively across its ecosystem. 

The infrastructure is ready, the demand is proven and the only missing piece is the packaging.

Think about what this product could look like: I imagine it will not look like mac mini but it will be pairable with iPhone and will work with iMessage.

It learns your workflow, handles your inbox, drafts your responses, manages your calendar, controls your smart home. All running locally. All private.

The people building this experience today on Mac Minis are tech enthusiasts with GitHub accounts and terminal comfort. 

Apple's opportunity is to deliver the same result to everyone else.

This is not about building the most powerful AI. It is about building the most useful one.

That has always been Apple's game.

The marketing job description is changing fast. Most marketers are not updating themselves at the same pace.

As per Jasper's State of AI in marketing report, 65% of marketing teams now have a designated AI role. 

Teams are actively hiring for positions that did not exist 18 months ago.

AI Search Specialists focused on how brands show up in AI-powered discovery.
 
AI Transformation Leads who own strategy, change management, and cross-functional execution. 

AI Architects who manage the technical foundations of marketing AI, including system reliability, integrations, and governance.

Scaling high-quality content is the top AI priority for marketers in 2026, growing 2.4x year over year but only 41% can confidently prove AI ROI, down from 49% last year. 

Teams are producing more than ever while struggling to measure whether any of it is actually working.

The marketers who thrive over the next two years will be the ones who stop thinking of themselves as campaign creators and start thinking of themselves as system builders.

If you are a marketing leader, the question worth asking your team this week is simple: Are we in ad-hoc mode where people use AI individually and inconsistently, or are we in operational mode where AI is embedded in workflows with clear ownership, governance, and measurement? 

The gap between those two modes is where competitive advantage lives right now.

Every brand's AI-generated content is starting to sound the same. And the data proves it.

A Max Planck Institute study analyzed over 700,000 hours of videos and podcasts. 

They found that words ChatGPT favors are now spreading into how humans actually talk and write.

A/c this study, words like "delve," "tapestry," "meticulous," and "realm" have jumped 25% to 58% in usage since ChatGPT launched. The correlation is strong enough that researchers ruled out coincidence.

Now apply this to marketing.
Every team is using the same models to write emails, ads, and landing pages.
The output converges toward the same structures, the same vocabulary, and the same tone.

Your campaigns start blending into everyone else's inbox.
The brands that stand out will be the ones whose AI output actually sounds unique like them.

This is something we thought about deeply while building Mailmodo AI. It generates from your actual brand kit and past performance so the output reflects your voice, not the model's default voice.

Differentiation in marketing has always mattered. With AI, it matters even more because the default is sameness.

Only ~10% of founders use AI for growth and GTM today. 

For marketers, that is an opportunity.

Founders are already saving 6+ hours a week with AI but almost entirely on personal productivity.

But Growth, GTM, market analysis, and customer research are still barely touched. And those are exactly where demand is surging. 

Less than 10% use AI for GTM today but over a third want to.

This means the CEOs will soon expect AI to run across the entire marketing function.

The marketers who will thrive are the ones already building AI into their actual workflows. 

Campaign planning, audience segmentation, lifecycle automation, performance analysis.

At Mailmodo, we see this shift daily. 

The teams pulling ahead are the ones using AI to run more experiments faster across their email channel while others are still stuck drafting one campaign at a time.
If AI in marketing still means "help me write a subject line" for your team, you are about to fall behind.

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